Industry Headlines: October 31, 2013
- After Jumping the Gun Last Year, Target Pushes Back Holiday-Campaign Launch: Earlier isn’t always better, as the retail discovered with last year’s holiday marketing. (Advertising Age)
- Health care tenants a perfect fit for some centers: Details of a recent webinar. (SCT Newswire)
- Spring racing boom: Australians are gearing up for racing fashions. (Inside Retail)
- ShopperTrak alerts retailers to brace for four days before Christmas: Dec. 20 to 24th will be a madhouse—look forward to it. (Retailing Today)
- Kroger Knows Your Shopping Patterns Better Than You Do: One retailer that knows what it’s doing with data. (Forbes)
- UK retailers suffer sharp slowdown in sales, says CBI: After a few months of sales growth, there’s bad news from the high street. (The Guardian)
- Seasonal Showdown: Mobile, Traditional Toys Collide: Mobile games may win for kids’ time, but they don’t look great wrapped up under the Christmas tree. (MediaPost)
- Explaining Gap’s Complicated Pre-Holiday Coupon Program: Gap’s got a new money-back promotion, but it’s a lot more limited than the retailer’s last. (Racked)
- Halloween Real Time Store Audits: The Good, the Bad, and the Scary: A few numbers from the last weekend of Halloween shopping. (GroundCntrol)
